Prisoners sometimes drink large amounts of water because they feel a high when they do it. The slang term for them is “water drunks”. When staff find one, they usually lock them in a cell where the water can be shut off from the outside. Prisoners like this are frustrating to governments because they can’t save money by packing them like sardines into barracks prisons.

Another Muslim looney tune, but one that wants to blow up Obama and the banks? If he had wanted to blow up some marathon runners or something, he would have gotten his picture on front of the Rolling Stone. (With ten copies for his mother)

The reason some people are so upset, and why this is getting so much attention, is that someone defiled the statue (graven image) of one of their main gods. And, I am not talking about Jackie Robinson himself or Major League Baseball. This was someone’s way of trying to fight back against the enshrinement and attempted forced worship of this particular “god”.

Pelosi is right about this one. Boehner is a *****. And, the Republicans haven’t done much, especially concerning job creation. This does not absolve Pelosi from being a ghastly ugly socialist gun grabber, though.

The entire butt hurt fuddy dud crew must be commenting on here today. This letter wasn’t written to you, your grandmother or your pastor. It was written by a disgruntled sorority member to her sorority putting them on notice for being lame, boring and retarded. It was not a cover letter to an employer, nor was it a letter to the editor. It was supposed to be “between the girls”. The method of communicating that the girl used is one that it well understood in those circles. You are trying understand something that is out of your league. Give it up.

Unions, like any other institution or organization, have their problems and drawbacks. Here is what unions meant to me over the years: When I was a kid raised by a Teamster dad, it meant having decent food and medical care, and a decent place to live. When I was a young man, it meant my first good job and car and not being treated like a burger flipper. Later, it meant being able to afford being able to support a child who’s mother didn’t have to work outside the home. It meant not being fired every time a company decided to move the bosses around. Now that I am old it means retirement without being on welfare. I chose public sector work about halfway through my working life because I knew they couldn’t ship that work to Mexico or China. I was right about that, but was only a few steps ahead of a pink slip for about the last ten years of my career. My life hasn’t been easy, but it has been tolerable, and the unions helped make it that way. When the unions are gone, most people who aren’t rich will be treated like burger flippers. My conservative brothers aren’t suggesting any realistic replacement for the unions. They want us all to throw ourselves on the mercy of the employers.

And now we have those poor NY city school bus drivers who are fighting for their very lives. How does anybody expect for someone to surive on $14 - $29 per hour pay, which is TWICE the pay scale of the next highest paid drivers in L.A. Yes, we must help these drivers out and increase the spending of $7000 per year, per student to whatever these drivers need. Power to the people!

January 17, 2013 at 4:50pm

rolla020980 responded:

I believe that much of what you have said was true in the past, but the Unions got greedy. They were formed to give the average working man a fair days pay for a fair days work. It has evolved into overpayment for underworking. They have also gained too much political power. Ohio had a collective bargaining ban on public sector unions, but it was overturned by the electorate. Unions will fight for other unions regardless of the financial harm it causes society. When UAW strikes because 50 grand/year to put in a bolt is not enough, it has gone too far.

January 17, 2013 at 5:03pm

AtkRWC responded:

WOW! Thats impressive! To think I did all that without the nanny help of a union. I'm 1/2 to retirement for the 2nd time (Retired 11 yrs ago). Great healthcare, wonderful home and never saw a union! I was raised by a father who taught me to be a man on my own. Oh well, to each his own.

January 17, 2013 at 5:10pm

jhrusky responded:

@ rtaylor174
Obviously there are bad employers out there just as there are bad employees. Today the entire union debate is much like all other debates ... everyone is so extremely polarized on one side or the other it's hard to get any honesty anywhere.
There was a time that unions were needed when some employers wanted to run, essentially, sweatshops here. I believe those days have left us. Many employers, at least small ones, don't have a problem with paying a fair days wage for a fair days work, and many of us don't pay ourselves 1000X our employees salary, either. Unfortunately, the insatiable greed at some of the larger corps has painted the entire corporate America as greedy SOBs who would enslave its workers.
Additionally, public sector unions have enjoyed quite a 'free ride' in many respects; the pay for their members is not even close to similar professions in the private sector. It never made any sense for a public sector union to ask for a raise all the while donating to the bank accounts of those that gave those rases; of course they'd get what they ask for and of course it would be abusive.
American just needs to get back to some form of normality. I'm of the mindset today that a collapse and complete reset of the system may be what it takes.

January 17, 2013 at 5:26pm

Perspective responded:

Aren't you just arrogant and VERY CONDESCENDING? You really seem down on someone who as you put it is ,"a burger flipper". Why do you hate young and elderly people as these are most of what works fast food. A Teamster huh? The most corrupt unin ever and you're proud of that. In the end you're just another left wing unionite who could care less about anyone else who works for a living. Shame you couldn't make it on your own isn't it? I have nothing more than a high school education and have always negotiated my own wages and benefits and live comfortably. Why? Because I busted my @55 and worked hard. Then you chose to suck of the taxpayers teat,how pathetic.

January 17, 2013 at 5:45pm

FutureOnePercent responded:

It sounds like the benefits your union offered would be worth paying dues for. Many people believe we are against unions completely, which is not true. We are against FORCING workers to join a union against their will.
If unions were as great as everyone says they are, they wouldn't have to force people into their ranks.
I support freedom of choice and a market based on voluntary association, not coercion.

January 17, 2013 at 5:53pm

Jim in Houston responded:

You are a sick puppy! Unions do absolutely nothing for the worker and a hell of a lot for the head goons. Right to work without being forced to pay some goon is an absolute right that unions cannot usurp.

January 6, 2013 at 1:15pm

I always preferred calling them rag heads, camel jockeys or sand n____s. I think we should come up with something to call them that really describes the kind of filth they are.

The police and the media are LYING. No one is going to turn in a two thousand dollar gun to get two hundred dollars. I have known people from all walks of life, from the rich to crack heads in the hood. Even the dumbest crackhead is going to want more money for an UZI or a MAC 10 than $200.

You want to make this about race? Ok. I’ll play. Whitey is no slouch when it comes to efficient, cold blooded mass murder. Mao Tse Tung’s Chicoms might hold the world title when it comes to sheer body count, though. But, when it comes to wasting the masses with machines, bombs, radiation, death rays, chemicals and germs,in a most efficient manner, I think Whitey comes in very close number two. So, just keep pushing the race issue while at the same time portraying whites as weaklings.

Mao was good at killing unarmed peasants, when he attacked Americans he lost near a thousand for 1 American killed.

December 24, 2012 at 3:46am

Hey NRA! The facts are on your side. But, you are playing the game on the enemy’s terms. You are guaranteed to lose that way. Wise up. Hide some of your cards and keep it a simple as possible for the “low information voter”, and use sloganeering and emotionalism and ridicule like the enemy does. When you already know you are right, winning is what is important.

The facts are not on the NRA's side whatsoever. At the very least, the more guns per capita in the U.S. the higher the murder rate, and that's their main point... This, as well as all the other NRA talking points are simply made-up statistics and bull*hit designed to keep the market flowing no matter the human cost. It's their business... anything they do is done for profit only.
Just as they invented facts and stats to make you believe Romney was winning, they're presenting you with a fantasy that will never happen based on wrong facts and statistics.
Nobody is coming for your guns... the more guns there are in a city the more homocides... there were armed guards and security at Columbine, Vtech, etc.
As you guys so hilariously say to each other as you're writing the most brainwaahed comments that exist online, "wake up people".

December 24, 2012 at 11:45am

taintso responded:

A shooter inside a school with illegally acquired guns, call police 20 min arrival time, they wait out side making sure the shooter doesn't leave while waiting another 20 min. for swat to show up. If the shooter has not killed himself or ran out of ammo you have at least 40 min of murders.
A armed and trained person at the school, a deterrent shooter may not even choose that target. And if he does there is an immediate response. I think the person should not be an uniformed person as that might him the first target prior to the lunatics deeds.